ERROR OF JUDGMENT
o ATTRIBUTED TO CAPTAIN OF WAIKOUAITI. FINDING OF THE COURT OF INQUIRY. (By Telegraph—Press Association.) WELLINGTON, This Day. Although the Court found that Captain John Bruce of the steamer Waikouaiti, which was wrecked oil’ Dog Island, three miles from the Bluff, on the night of November 28, had committed an error of judgment, it returned his certificate without endorsement and did not order him to meet the costs of the inquiry. The actual finding of the Court was as follows: — “(1) The cause of the casualty was that after 8 p.m. on November 28. the master of the ship proceeded upon his course at a normal speed of 91 knots to ten knots, when fog and weather conditions rendered the Dog Island light and al] neighbouring landmarks invisible, and when the vessel should not have proceeded. “(2) In so proceeding upon his course, the master committed an error of judgment.”
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Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1939, Page 6
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153ERROR OF JUDGMENT Wairarapa Times-Age, 22 December 1939, Page 6
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